Empathy and Personality Styles in Medical Students

Q2 Social Sciences

Revista Colombiana de Psicologia Pub Date : 2020-08-16 DOI:10.15446/rcp.v29n2.82988

Yolanda Dávila Pontón, Alejandro Reyes Reyes, Aracelis Calzadilla Núñez, V. D. Díaz Narváez, R. Utsman, P. Torres Martínez

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Abstract

This study aimed to establish the relationship between empathy and personality styles in medical students, considering the differences by gender. The participants were 278 students of the medical career of the Universidad del Azuay, Ecuador. They were evaluated using the Jefferson empathy scale and the Millon Index of Personality Styles. Relationships between empathy and personality styles were examined using Pearson's correlation coefficient and hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis, for comparisons by gender and educational levels; with both Student's t test and analysis of variance used respectively. Results indicated that the factor structure of the empathy scale is invariant between men and women, noticing gender differences in care with compassion and total empathy, with women presenting a higher mean. Differences are observed by educational level, where the general empathy in the first three years grows progressively, and then slightly decrease. In conclusion, female students present a mean score of total empathy greater than men, with differences of empathy according to educational level

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医学生的移情与人格风格

本研究旨在建立医学生移情与人格风格之间的关系，并考虑性别差异。参与者是厄瓜多尔阿祖艾大学医学专业的278名学生。他们使用杰斐逊移情量表和Millon人格风格指数进行评估。采用Pearson相关系数和层次多元线性回归分析，按性别和教育水平进行比较，检验移情与人格风格之间的关系；分别使用Student t检验和方差分析。结果表明，移情量表的因素结构在男性和女性之间是不变的，注意到在同情和完全移情的照顾方面的性别差异，女性表现出更高的平均值。教育水平存在差异，前三年的总体同理心逐渐增长，然后略有下降。总之，女生在总移情方面的平均得分高于男生，不同教育水平的女生在移情方面存在差异

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Revista Colombiana de Psicologia Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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2.00

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审稿时长

52 weeks

期刊介绍： The Revista Colombiana de Psicología (RCP) aims to reach educational and cultural institutions interested in the psychological science, as well as psychologists and students of psychology or related disciplines. The goal of the journal is to increase public knowledge about psychology in Latin America by publishing original, peer-reviewed, articles within the several fields of psychology. In this way, RCP aims at creating a stronger academic community in this field in Latin America and to spread state-of-the-art research agendas at the international level. RCP publishes empirical and theoretical works that follow the guide lines accepted by the different scientific and theoretical perspectives in psychology, and presented as essays, meta-analysis, literature reviews and empirical studies.